The Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission is delighted to announce that U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Program Alumnae Sawako Nakayasu and Marie Mutsuki Mockett have been shortlisted for the 2016 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation and the 2016 PEN Open Book Award , respectively. Since 1978, the Commission has worked with the National Endowment for the Arts to […]
Calling all artists! Join us for a Twitter chat tonight (January 19, 2016) at 6pm Eastern Time with the National Endowment for the Arts to discuss the U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Program. Connect with program alumni, learn how to apply and get tips and advice during tonight’s chat! Applications are due February 1, 2016. Follow us […]
The Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC), U.S. CULCON Secretariat and U.S.-Japan Bridging Foundation (USJBF) in Washington, DC seek TWO interns on a rolling basis to support current initiatives, which include activities promoting U.S.-Japan cultural, educational and people-to-people exchange. Interns will be handling digital media, conducting database management, assisting with the planning of events in the United […]
The Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission is delighted to support two dynamic exhibitions at the San Jose Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. New Stories from the Edge of Asia: Tabaimo: Her Room at the San Jose Museum of Art will run from February 6 through August 21, 2016. This is the first major museum […]
Three outstanding scholars are the recipients of the 2015 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission (JUSFC) Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature, recently awarded during a ceremony at the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Columbia University. Since its establishment in 1975, on of the ways in which the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission has supported and sustained the […]
